Enrolment Emergency in Punjab
Lahore: 25 June:Punjab Minister for Education, Sports, Tourism, Youth Affairs and Archaeology Rana Mashood Ahmad Khan has declared “Enrolment Emergency” in Punjab. Under this emergent programme, one million kids will be enrolled every year in public and private sector schools and the target of hundred percent enrollments of children, from five to nine years of age, will be achieved in a phases.
According to a handout issued here Monday, this was disclosed by the education minister while talking to the staff members of the provincial secretariat of Punjab Educational Endowment Fund (PEEF), here. The minister emphasized the need to transform the educational institutions into a source of knowledge instead of merely a tool of degree awarding machines. Investment in education is considered the best investment in the world. If we want Pakistan to flourish, we should focus on investment in human resource development, he added. Rana Mashood Ahmad Khan said a sum of Rs.230 billion had been allocated in the current fiscal year for education sector development in Punjab which is 27 percent component of the total budget. He appreciated Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sahrif for making the merit scholarship programme under PEEF a successful project under which 15,000 intelligent and deserving students had been awarded scholarships.Dawn.
